- He is the President of J. Dunton and Company in England.
- He was awarded the M.B.E. (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1998 Queen's New Year's Honours List for his services to the camera and film industry.
- He is the father of Erica Dunton.
- Honorary Member of the Guild of British Camera Technicians (GBCT).
- [December 2022] Presented Dance Craze (1981) at the 17th 2011 Bradford International Film Festival, hosted at the National Media Museum, Bradford, England [Saturday 26th of March 2011]. The first ever re-release of Dance Craze since its first run in 1981; a film, so far, still, never to have been released on any format as VHS, DVD, Blu-ray etc.
- His creative innovations within the industry include a heated camera eyepiece to prevent misting, the Ladderpod and Moy Bazooka tripods, various video assist set-ups and the Mitchell Vitesse geared head.
- Received a British Academy Film Award on the 21st of February 2010 for his Outstanding Contribution to Cinema.
- [circa 2009] He has worked with the likes of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Mike Leigh and Stanley Kubrick, whom he started working with on A Clockwork Orange (1971). He has most recently worked on the Harry Potter series and Rob Marshall's Nine (2009), both of which are BAFTA-nominated this year.
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